Editor’s note: An editing error mischaracterized how to test IPv6 capability from a network. We have removed that reference, and we regret the error. The Internet ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

In early 2019, as Technology Co-Chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, I participated in intensive policy discussions with federal cybersecurity leadership about a critical national security imperative ...

Proponents of IPv6 have made dire predictions about the fate of the Internet if usage of IPv6 doesn't rise dramatically in the next few years During the past six months, the Internet engineering ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The co-authors of Global IPv6 Strategies were the guests for a live Network World chat where they discussed all things IPv6. Bechtel’s Fred Wettling, ArchRock’s Patrick Grossetete, and Cisco’s Ciprian ...

You’ve probably heard about the looming shortage of Internet addresses, even if you’ve never gone looking for one. But depending on what websites you visit and how you get to them, you may be helping ...

Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are ...

The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, ...